When and how do I get my first storage container.

[Decimam]

Hi all,

So I started playing this game today so I know absolutely nothing, zero.

Can someone please tell me when you get your first storage container because I have seen that the quest can bug but I can't actually find out which quest it is as every video or post is about containers 1-9 and nothing seems to give a straight answer.

I have built a base and made the teleport to the space station and found the massive crashed frigate ship thing and i'm currently farming money for microchips. Should I have the storage containers by now or is it further down the line? because if it's bugged I don't want to plough anymore time into it wasting what I will have to restart.

Thanks for your time.

[UncreativelyNamed]

If you are playing the main "story," you will get it when you start to build terminals for NPC researchers at your base. So no, you shouldn't have the storage containers yet.

[Element]

It's been a long time since I bothered with the early "story" missions, but I believe that you get it from the base foreman. Each of the base experts (foreman, scientist, farmer, weapons, and exocraft) give missions that give you a large chunk of the building recipes for free and the rest you buy in the Anomaly, so make sure you build their respective terminals and hire them. If any of them do bug out, all recipes are available to purchase in the Anomaly, so as soon as you can summon it you can get them all if you have enough Salvaged Data, but I recommend getting them the story way your first time.

[tkwoods]

During the first story quests you end up at the Anomaly. Save nanites and you can purchase a storage BP there. Also, abot 2.5 hours in and 5 warps you can save a freighter, get it free and it will already have the storage containers unlocked.

[cfteague2]

yeah, it depends. if you're in an expedition, things are different.

In the main game, you CAN spend salvage things (dig em up from ground) to unlock, once you get to the nexus, but thats somewhat expensive

If you do the base storyline, I believe you will get the storage unlocked

[cfteague2]

trying to remember. if you have a base construction terminal mission that wants you to go back to it like once every couple of hours, then i think that will unlock the storage? but Im not positive.

the other possibility, is you need to get a base supervisor terminal unlocked, then built, then find a gek npc to be the supervisor, and then he will give you a quest chain which at some point will unlock it.

But I cant recall which of the 2 base series, it is. sorry....

[Johnny in the Clouds]

Storage Crate blue prints can be purchased at the Anomaly, costing 5 salvage data units per container. Once you have a base you can then add them to your base. Salvage data you dig up on planets with the terrain tool and use the visor to find them. Buried salvage data is often easily found at 'building' locations with the help of a signal booster. Crashed ship sites and scattered machinery needing repairs, usually has salvage data nearby. The data is everywhere on most planets. Some may have more than others.

The same crates are accessible if built inside any freighter you own. If you own a freighter the bridge has a terminal with freighter blueprints including storage container rooms. However those room parts are unlocked using a different currency called freighter salvage data. Those can be found from doing secondary missions, searching for crashed freighters, derelict freighters, visiting pirate systems and several other methods.

Expeditions unlock all sorts of things that would otherwise take longer to unlock in the standard play through and that can be an advantage for a new or casual player. Each expedition varies in the unlocks and rewards.

[RedFireCracker]

Build a Construction terminal .. it should give you research options.

[Dr.Abscondus]

Once I got a freighter I stopped making storage units. You can store everything in storage units you make on the ship, then you always have everything right there. First freighter is free when you defeat the pirates attacking it. The battle will show up every fifth time you warp in a game session. Be careful not to hit the freighter you're defending against the pirates.

[gNg]

You get the first one (#0) from the base computer missions, which if you're following the tutorial (or maybe even if you're not?), you'll receive soon after you start. The rest (#1-9) are given to you by the construction technician which comes a bit later.

Or you can just buy them, as mentioned above.

[Davnia]

Once you warp to the first system, and after you do what is requested of you you will get another base computer mission. You will have to go back to the base computer and it will then give you the first storage box. After you start the Atremis quest line you will start getting missions to gather companions for your base. The first companion you get will give you a mission to go to an abandoned outpost, that will give you the other 9 storage containers.